What is ISARA?

International Spatial Accuracy Research Association (ISARA) is a research group that focuses on how to measure, model and manage uncertainty in spatial data, specifically the one that comes from natural resource inventories. ISARA consists of the two main parts: (a) the ISARA steering committee and (b) wider group of about 120 members. ISARA biannually organizes a conference entitled "International Symposia on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences", also shortly called "Accuracy". The core topics discussed within ISARA are:

• Uncertainty in terrain modelling
• Uncertainty in vegetation mapping
• Navigation uncertainty
• Spatial data quality measures
• Uncertainty visualisation techniques
• Uncertainty in decision making
• Mathematical modelling of uncertainty in GIS

Relevant publications and journals:

• CONGALTON, R. and GREEN, K. 1998, Assessing the accuracy of remotely sensed data: principles and practices (Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton).
• DEVILLERS, R. and JEANSOULIN, R. 2006, Fundamentals of Spatial Data Quality (Geographical Information Systems series, ISTE Publishing Company).
• FOODY, G. M., and ATKINSON, P. M., (editors), 2002, Uncertainty in Remote Sensing and GIS (Chicester: Wiley).
• GOODCHILD, M. F., and GOPAL, S., (editors), 1989, Accuracy of Spatial Databases (London: Taylor & Francis).
• GOODCHILD, M. F., and JEANSOULIN, R., (editors), 1998, Data Quality in Geographic Information, from Error to Uncertainty (Paris: Hermes).
• GUPTILL, S. C., and MORRISON, J. L., (editors), 1995, Elements of Spatial Data Quality (Oxford: Elsevier).
• HEUVELINK, G. B. M., and BURROUGH, P. A., (editors), 2002, Developments in Statistical Approaches to Spatial Uncertainty and its Propagation. Themed issue International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 16, number 2.
• HEUVELINK, G. B. M., and LEMMENS, M. J. P. M., (editors), 2000, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (Delft: Delft University Press).
• HEUVELINK, G. B. M., 1998, Error propagation in environmental modelling with GIS (Taylor & Francis, London).
• HUNSAKER, C., GOODCHILD, M. F., FRIEDL, M. A. and CASE, T. J., 2001, Spatial uncertainty in ecology : implications for remote sensing and GIS applications (Springer-Verlag, New York).
• HUNTER, G., and LOWELL, K., (editors), 2002, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (Melbourne: RMIT University).
• LOWELL, K., and JATON, A., (editors), 1999, Spatial Accuracy Assessment. Land Information Uncertainty in Natural Resources (Chelsea, Michigan: Ann Arbor Press).
• MOWRER, H. T., and CONGALTON, R. G., (editors), 2000, Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty in Natural Resources: Theory and Applications for GIS and Remote Sensing (Chelsea, Michigan: Ann Arbor Press).
• SHI, W., FISHER, P.F., and GOODCHILD, M.F., (editors), 2002, Spatial Data Quality (London: Taylor & Francis).
• STEIN, A., SHI, J., BIJKER, W. (editors) 2008, Quality Aspects in Spatial Data Mining (CRC press).
• ZHANG, J. and GOODCHILD, M., 2002, Uncertainty in Geographical Information (Taylor & Francis, London; New York).